Karina Garcia, a candidate for mayor of Suarez, in southwestern Colombia, was killed along with five other people who were with her. The armored car on which the candidate of the Liberal party traveled, along with the escort and her mother, was riddled with bullets and subsequently set on fire.
In a tweet, the Colombian Ombudsman condemned the "massacre perpetrated". The area where Garcia was killed - previously threatened with death - "is an area of ​​the indigenous community" repeatedly hit by violence linked to drug trafficking and illegal extraction, explained Jair Rossi, the regional ombudsman.
The governor of Cauca, Oscar Campo, said that in total inside the vehicle there were seven people, one of whom threw himself out of the car at the time of the attack and was saved, while the others died. The governor added that it is too early to establish the perpetrators of the massacre with certainty, but stressed that Suarez is surrounded by illicit crops and laboratories for cocaine processing, and a dissident group of the Farc and the criminal gang of the Farc are active in the territory. "Los Pelusos".
The security forces, however, report the media, not have currently been able to confirm the band's involvement in the attack. Karina Garcia, as shown by a video she herself shot in mid-August, had received several threats during the election campaign. An alarm extended to many of the participants in the political dispute, reports the newspaper "El Espectador" citing a document presented by the People's Defender in early July. A text in which various testimonies of threats attributed to local armed groups are reported including factions of the same FARC. Local authorities also report that last Saturday - in the same province - three more people were found murdered, and three other bodies with heads in plastic bags were found on Sunday night. On 27 October there will be elections of regional leaders in Colombia: mayors,
